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Lenape Talking Dictionary

By English WORD or PHRASE

By Lenape WORD or PHRASE

Detailed Entry Information

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English:we kicked each other (incl.)
Lenape:kshakhwìkawtihëna [vta]

Comments

Unstressed /ë/ is elided; an unrelated /ë/ is inserted as a transition sound in the semantically empty /-hm/ suffix.
/m/ is elided before /n/.
The first person plural suffix /-nan/ is realized as /-na/ in final position.

Analysis

Form:
kshakhwìkawtihëna
Structure:
k-shakhwìkaw-ëti-hm-nan
Meaning:
2-kick-recip-MP-1.pl